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Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City /

Exploring Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied but crucial decades, the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soffer, Jonathan M., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Colección:Columbia history of urban life.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Struggling to be middle class: Ed Koch's early life
  • "It takes a village" (1949-1958)
  • "Rhymes with notch" (1959-1964)
  • "He's the hottest thing they've got"
  • "A rebel with reason"
  • "Koch's corridor" (1969-1976)
  • "A liberal with sanity:" Koch as the anti-Bella
  • "One-seventh of a mayor" (1973-76)
  • The 1977 mayoral election
  • Mayor!: the dynamics of dynamism (1978-81)
  • The politics of race and party
  • Shakeup (1979-1980)
  • Controlled fusion: or, to Koch or not to Koch (1980-1981)
  • Governor Koch? (1982-83)
  • Larger than life (1984-1985)
  • New spatial order: gentrification, the parks, Times Square
  • Homelessness
  • The Koch housing plan (1986-1989)
  • Aids
  • Crime and police issues (1978-1984)
  • Crime and police issues (1984-1989)
  • Don't follow county leaders and watch your parking meters
  • Koch's endgame (1988-89)
  • Epilogue.